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Sita Sings the Blues
May 26, 2008 6:45 PM • Uptown Cinema
Director Nina Paley’s autobiographical
“greatest break-up story ever told” is
exquisitely illuminated by a witty ’20s jazz musical
version of the Indian epic “Ramayana.” A
rousing, high-energy visual feast filled with a winning
myriad of animation styles.
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On the Wings of Dreams
May 27, 2008 9:15 PM • Pacific Place Cinema
May 30, 2008 4:30 PM • Uptown Cinema
When a pair of uneducated villagers find a wad of foreign
currency in some second-hand clothing, they begin to dream
about what the fortune might bring them, but soon greed and
deception begin to damage their relationship.
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Rewind
May 30, 2008 9:30 PM • SIFF Cinema, part of Strange
Days
A blind man rewinds through a situation that left his
fellow robbers dead and the loot in his possession.
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Son of a Lion
May 31, 2008 6:30 PM • Harvard Exit
June 1, 2008 11:00 AM • Harvard Exit
A delicate and real portrait of a father-and-son
relationship from first-time director Benjamin Gilmour set
in the tribal region of Northwest Pakistan near the Afghan
border. Eleven-year-old Niaz dreams of studying at school
but his stern father wants him to continue in the family
business of making guns.
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Four Women
June 4, 2008 7:00 PM • Uptown Cinema
June 7, 2008 1:30 PM • Uptown Cinema
A searing and thought-provoking drama revolving around four
elemental female characters in the south Indian state of
Kerala: The Prostitute, The Virgin, The Housewife, and The
Spinster. Each endures a socially defined role not of her
own choosing.
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Brick Lane
June 5, 2008 7:00 PM • Uptown Cinema
June 6, 2008 4:00 PM • Uptown Cinema
From Monica Ali’s award-winning, controversial novel,
this startling film transforms the text into rich,
seductive images layered onto a refreshingly accessible
plot. Nazneen is a Bangladeshi woman living in 2001 London.
Estranged from her teenage daughter and pseudo-intellectual
husband, she falls into an affair with a young, charismatic
Muslim activist.
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Ramchand Pakistani
June 6, 2008 7:00 PM • SIFF Cinema
June 7, 2008 11:00 AM • Harvard Exit
Inspired by a real-life incident, Ramchand Pakistani
examines the emotional turmoil of a 7-year-old Hindu boy
and his father after they inadvertently cross into India
and are jailed. This triggers a nightmare of misinformation
on both sides of the border that lasts for years.
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Fairytale of Kathmandu
June 12, 2008 9:30 PM • SIFF Cinema
June 14, 2008 11:00 AM • Pacific Place Cinema
When filmmaker Neasa Ní Chianáin first met
poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh, she was immediately
enchanted by him, and later agrees to film one of his
annual visits to Nepal. But although Ó
Searcaigh’s philanthropy allows many young men to
further their education, she soon comes to believe his
benevolence serves to feed his darker appetites.
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Lakshmi and Me
June 14, 2008 4:00 PM • Harvard Exit
June 15, 2008 11:00 AM • Harvard Exit
“What sin did I commit to be born a woman?”
These chilling words of 21-year-old housemaid Lakshmi
reverberate throughout Mumbai-based filmmaker Nishtha
Jain’s extraordinary documentary. Jain turns the
camera on her part-time maid, and in the process
illuminates the complex relationship between employer and
servant, filmmaker, and subject.
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Before the Rains
All screenings have passed
Acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan employs the verdant
landscape of his native Kerala as the backdrop for his
English Language directorial debut. A graceful period drama
set in 1937 India where personal freedom clashes with
British colonialism.
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